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Episode 145: Kevin Davies on the CRISPR boom, & Megan Ranney on scientific misinformation

Episode 145: Kevin Davies on the CRISPR boom, & Megan Ranney on scientific misinformation

First, we discuss the implications of Johnson & J…

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January 28, 202134m 16s

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Show Notes

First, we discuss the implications of Johnson & Johnson’s any-day-now data on a one-shot vaccine for Covid-19. Then, Kevin Davies, executive editor of the CRISPR Journal, joins us to talk about the strange boom in genome editing stocks and the future of the revolutionary technology. Finally, we talk to Megan Ranney, an emergency room physician and Brown University professor, about the challenges of Covid-19 science communication in a post-Trump world.